Raising And Folding Only, No Call Or Checking

[wakiki 0]

I plan to do this at a $1.2 SnG on Stars as a goofy experiment.Thoughts and/or advice?Summary of a few of my posts below:I have major problems if I'm first to act, so I'll be playing mostly from the button and CO. Playing from the BB would be an exception. I can also call if it puts me all-in.

[GeneralGeeWhiz 0]

I plan to do this at a $1.2 SnG on Stars as a goofy experiment.Thoughts and/or advice?

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[chgocubs99 0]

You will fail the first time you are first to act.

[Tehtoe 3]

How can you play poker without a call button?

[wakiki 0]

You will fail the first time you are first to act.

Yeah that's a problem I've been thinking about. I'd be playing from the button and CO almost all of the time.The main issue is playing from the BB. I might let playing the BB be the exception to my rules. I don't wanna have to fold or raise a garbage hand when I could see a free flop lol.

[MadKennedy420 0]

Over under bet?

[MadKennedy420 0]

Over under bet?

[Gallo 1]

Yeah that's a problem I've been thinking about. I'd be playing from the button and CO almost all of the time.The main issue is playing from the BB. I might let playing the BB be the exception to my rules. I don't wanna have to fold or raise a garbage hand when I could see a free flop lol.

What about when you have the nuts? You can only call an all in. Or when someone has you covered and shoves PF and you have AA, you're gonna have to fold right?

[chgocubs99 0]

What about when somene bets into you, you raise, and they call. Then they check the next street to you. You'll have to straight fold.

[wakiki 0]

What about when you have the nuts? You can only call an all in. Or when someone has you covered and shoves PF and you have AA, you're gonna have to fold right?

Didn't think of that. Well no, that doesn't count. If I have them covered then I'm reraising, and if not, calling myself all in would be acceptable.

What about when somene bets into you, you raise, and they call. Then they check the next street to you. You'll have to straight fold.

Yep, or minraise.

[I_fold08 1]

i think this is worse than the majority of the threads that i start

[Rs Hawk 0]

Didn't think of that. Well no, that doesn't count. If I have them covered then I'm reraising, and if not, calling myself all in would be acceptable.Yep, or minraise.

This all sounds way to confusing to make it worthwhile. I think your breaking the rules too much to really say you are playing without calling or checking imo, gl tho

[ice4804 0]

Only for superusers ldo

[wakiki 0]

This all sounds way to confusing to make it worthwhile. I think your breaking the rules too much to really say you are playing without calling or checking imo, gl tho

Heh thanks, I'll need it without two "weapons" in my arsenal, so to speak!Folding the nuts to an all-in is totally unacceptable and silly, but I do feel like I'm breaking the rules a little in the BB. Maybe I should just raise from every BB. Hmmm....Basically, the point of this is to force me to play super-aggressive and see if I can get my timing and bet amounts correct. I might lose money but become a better player because of it, who knows? :PEDIT: Alright, here goes.EDIT2: Painful folds so far: Ad9d UTG. Folding suited connectors in the SB is painful. Maybe I should minraise them and then cold fold if I don't hit.

[RDog 0]

For the record, you are on the right path but going about it wrong. You simply can't do it without checking. There have been plenty of people that have gone through such a "trial" without ever using the call button. Check, Raise or Fold is what you are looking for.

[FARGOpokerND 22]

EDIT2: Painful folds so far: Ad9d UTG.

Glad this experiment has made you a better player instantly....

[wakiki 0]

For the record, you are on the right path but going about it wrong. You simply can't do it without checking. There have been plenty of people that have gone through such a "trial" without ever using the call button. Check, Raise or Fold is what you are looking for.

Interesting. I may try that next.

Glad this experiment has made you a better player instantly....

True, but sometimes I limp with those at a passive table.I'm almost out of this one LOL. Didn't have the discipline to cold fold on a 3 flush board/huge pot -- I bet all in and lost a huge chunk of my stack to a flush. I think if he didn't have the flush he would have folded though.

[A_Bullets_A 0]

So I guess you're trying this to be more aggressive or something? This is weird though. Why not just make it simpler and allow yourself to check? Just always check, raise, or fold. Only call when it's an all in.Just noticed someone already said the same thing. Didn't read a few posts, my bad.

[wakiki 0]

So I guess you're trying this to be more aggressive or something? This is weird though. Why not just make it simpler and allow yourself to check? Just always check, raise, or fold. Only call when it's an all in.Just noticed someone already said the same thing. Didn't read a few posts, my bad.

NP. I will do that next. When I came up with the idea, I figured allowing myself to check wouldn't be radical enough.Then, after that, it's time to play without looking at my cards. How do people do this anyway? Put a sticknote on your monitor?I'm out of the SnG. LOL, that went pretty fast. I took a costly hit early where I raised from 4x the button with 55, and the big blind minraised me, and I minraised him back. Should I have just folded here? Anyways, he didn't rerereraise me (thank God), 3 overcards came on the flop, he bet, I folded.

[wwmoon85 0]

I'm almost out of this one LOL. Didn't have the discipline to cold fold on a 3 flush board/huge pot -- I bet all in and lost a huge chunk of my stack to a flush. I think if he didn't have the flush he would have folded though.

In a $1.20 sng? Top pair, any kicker calls you.

[wakiki 0]

In a $1.20 sng? Top pair, any kicker calls you.

That's true. I normally would have just checked and folded if I wasn't playing by these rules. In retrospect, with these rules, I should have just minraised him, cause that's what some donks have when they get a huge hand.

[SCS 0]

For the record, you are on the right path but going about it wrong. You simply can't do it without checking. There have been plenty of people that have gone through such a "trial" without ever using the call button. Check, Raise or Fold is what you are looking for.

Or bet.

[Gallo 1]

Glad this experiment has made you a better player instantly....

loooooolI think your "experiment" already has too many leaks.Lock it up.

[wakiki 0]

loooooolI think your "experiment" already has too many leaks.Lock it up.

I actually learned a major lesson about the amount to bet during the tourney though, so it wasn't just a waste of money. The lesson is so obvious to non-noob players that I would be embarrassed to explain it though!

[Balloon guy 158]

What about when you have the nuts? You can only call an all in. Or when someone has you covered and shoves PF and you have AA, you're gonna have to fold right?

Sometimes folding AA is the right play pre-flop